The two often support each other in small ways when the other's foibles have been painfully exposed. Indeed, it is often Charlie Brown who is seen commiserating with Linus on November 1, after the Great Pumpkin fails to appear. They are commonly seen having discussions when leaning up against the brick wall , when walking to school or when sitting on a street curb. Rerun and Charlie Brown appear to have little interaction with each other in strips from the s and 80s.
The main exception being the storyline from in which Lucy convinces a reluctant Charlie Brown to allow infant Rerun to join Charlie Brown's baseball team. Rerun is instrumental in the team's win, as he is so small that the opposing pitcher cannot throw any strikes at him, and Rerun gets a game-winning walk. However, the victory is later voided because Rerun and Snoopy had bet five cents on the game. However, the two have more contact between the s when Rerun grew beyond infancy.
Rerun is often shown asking Charlie Brown if he can play on his baseball team or if he can borrow Snoopy. Charlie Brown usually is unwilling to let Rerun play on his team, but usually allows Rerun to play with Snoopy. Unlike the other children, Rerun comes to admire Charlie Brown, while watching Charlie Brown warm up on his pitcher's mound on one occasion, he refers to Charlie Brown as "the Master". Charlie Brown also became somewhat of a mentor to Rerun, teaching him how to feed a dog , how to deliver newspapers, and how to play marbles.
When bully Joe Agate tricks Rerun into losing all of his marbles, Charlie Brown wins them back for him.
Schroeder is one of Charlie Brown's closest friends, they commonly have conferences on the pitcher's mound in between pitches, mostly about hand signals one finger means a fastball and two fingers means a curveball, etc.
Charlie Brown is also one of the few people who Schroeder will let lounge against his piano, as he knows Charlie Brown respects his love of Beethoven. In fact, when Schroeder was younger, Charlie Brown would read the life of Beethoven to him. Charlie Brown was also the one who introduced Schroeder to the piano. One on occasion the two had an argument in where Charlie Brown insulted his "yellow hair" and the fact he plays on his piano all day, Schroeder then made fun of his coonskin cap he was wearing at the time and also Charlie Brown's round head.
Schroeder at times is usually the first to defend Charlie Brown. An example of this was when Violet offers Charlie Brown one of her leftover Valentine's Day cards on the day after the holiday. Schroeder thoroughly chastises her, however, Charlie Brown accepts the Valentine's card regardless, although he expresses appreciation for Schroeder's gesture. Like all adults in the strip, Charlie Brown's parents are never seen but occasionally referenced. His father is a barber. His mother is a housewife.
In the early years of the strip, Violet 's relationship with Charlie Brown seems to change day to day. In some strips, Violet would tell Charlie Brown how much she likes him and be concerned about whether or not he liked her back. On other occasions, she would be mean and rude to Charlie Brown and try to annoy him and hurt his feelings. As her appearances became less frequent in the later years of the strip, her mercurial nature was, however, unchanged: sometimes she would use any excuse to bring Charlie Brown down or elevate herself above him; while other times the two were quite cordial, often spending the day together chatting.
Charlie Brown has a pen-pal but because he uses a fountain pen and because he has less skill than others at keeping the ink flow under control, he resorts to graphite and starts off the letters, "Dear Pencil-Pal". These correspondences, which began in the August 25, strip, are usually one-way; but on April 14, , Charlie Brown reads Lucy a letter he has received from his pen pal. In response to which, Charlie Brown utters a vigorous "HA! In a series of strips from , the Pen Pal is revealed to be a girl from Scotland named Morag.
Charlie Brown fantasizes about a future romance with Morag, but his plans are crushed when he learns Morag had sixty other pen pals. He is never able to get this close to her in the strip. Charlie Brown is in love with an unseen character known simply as "the Little Red-Haired Girl ", though he rarely has the courage to talk to her, and when he does it always goes badly.
For instance, when he finally gets the nerve to call her, he accidentally calls Marcie's house instead. It is never revealed in the comic strip whether she has any feelings towards to Charlie Brown.
In The Peanuts Movie , she reveals that she has a liking for Charlie Brown because he is honest and caring toward others. The two even promise to write to each other. In particular, he has a tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, to both of them; Peppermint Patty when she seeks reassurance over her "big nose" and her femininity, and Marcie when she tries to show that she cares about him. However, sometimes Charlie Brown might return feelings for one of them; for example in You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown near the end after Marcie winks at Charlie Brown, he blushes, which can be interpreted as saying he likes her.
Although "Pig-Pen" is one of Charlie Brown's friends, he initially did not appreciate the cloud of dirt that follows him. While he sometimes used to reprove "Pig-Pen" for his consistent messiness, he is usually impressed by how "Pig-Pen" manages to stay messy, even in a rainstorm. In one strip, "Pig-Pen" is embarrassed when Charlie Brown deduces—simply from the dirt on his clothes—where he has been playing for the past three days. However, despite this, Charlie Brown is the only person to accept "Pig-Pen" for who he is, In one strip he even defended his uncleanliness "Don't think of it as dust.
Just think of it as the dirt and dust of far-off lands blowing over here and settling on 'Pig-Pen! He may be carrying the soil that was trod upon by Solomon or Nebuchadnezzar or Genghis Khan!
Charlie Brown has a brief, yet surprisingly successful flirtation with a minor character called Peggy Jean whom he meets at summer camp. She kisses him and says she loves him. He is not always as successful with camp friends, including having a bunkmate who exclusively says to him, "Shut Up and Leave Me Alone". Franklin and Charlie Brown are always on good terms, Franklin is seen as a good friend to Charlie Brown and is arguably the nicest person to him in the strip.
And instead I get a personal note from Schulz, politely as humanly possible declining to write for that book but saying if I ever found myself in Santa Rosa, California, please stop by. But next thing I knew I was in his office talking to him and he couldn't have been nicer.
What I do, not for a living, but as labors of love, is to put together these collections of writing on topics that are near and dear to me.
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Bringing memories, stories, insights, context into this tapestry and forming a picture of Peanuts that I don't think we had before. OR: Why do you think Peanuts is so powerful? Why has it stood the test of time? Blauner: There's a piece in the book by Chris Ware, who's a great cartoonist in his own right, but also writes incredibly well.
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Of all people, Charlie knows all too well know much Lucy disdains him. But, even Lucy has her weaknesses. We all make fools of ourselves at times. We all have our bad points; we all get tricked; we all say stuff that hurts other people; we all tell people our problems; we all take things on the chin and keep on living.
According to one book I read, the English that the kids speak makes them seem quite like precocious children. I bet we can say that we all grew up living out the scenes drawn in Peanuts , worrying about the same stuff, and finding joy in the same stuff Charlie Brown and the gang did. The pure expressive power Peanuts has makes me feel this way—after all, that must be one of many reasons why the comic was able to sell worldwide as much as ,, copies just the paperback editions alone.
In the beginning, Snoopy was just the dog who ran in the background behind all of the kid characters, but around the turn of the s, Schulz made him stand on his two legs and began to feature him as a star of the series, so much so that Snoopy stole the scenes from the other cast members. I say that, but it is so clear that Snoopy owes everything to the rest of the Peanuts cast.
Always lovelorn, always having his baseball game get disrupted by debates or losing the game because of one careless pitch, that Charlie Brown! That Charlie Brown!
That is why we all feel such a close connection to those Peanuts characters. Like the flying and morphing mouth of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland , Snoopy can become all the things he wants to be in life, be it Surgeon Snoopy, Author Snoopy, or, of course, the Flying Ace.
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